electric
/ɪˈlɛktɹɪk/ noun C2- Electricity; the electricity supply. · We had to sit in the dark because the electric was cut off.
- An electric toothbrush.
- An electric typewriter.
- Fencing with the use of a body wire, box, and related equipment to detect when a weapon has touched an opponent.
Plural electrics
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At the moment when the hand of the massive time-piece, representing Endymion asleep, pointed to nine on its golden face, and the hammer, the faithful type of mechanical thought, struck nine times, the name of the Count of Monte Cristo resounded in its turn, and as if by an electric shock all the assembly turned towards the door.
Now, as I dislike him, and hope his railway, his electric telegraph, or his search for baths, will ruin him, I am watching for his discomfiture, which must soon take place.”
“What is it?” said she, starting at Madame Danglars’ touch as she would have done from an electric shock.
Jane Andrews was over once last summer and she says it was a dazzling sight to see the electric lights and the flowers and all the lady guests in such beautiful dresses.
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